S.J. Pearce

Hey folks:

I've been asked to publicize an event.

Next Tuesday, March 10, Ruth Ben-Ghiat and I will be speaking about resistance at a panel hosted by the New York Philharmonic.

7:00 PM at the David Rubenstein Atrium, Broadway between 62nd and 63rd.

It's free.
Join us!

Spent four hours in the ER with my daughter (she's fine!) and overheard the patient on the other side of the little curtain -- a college student freaking out because she has midterms and can't waste time getting treated.

Students, take care of yourself. I promise you, your profs will understand.

The Archivist Who Followed the Problem A decade of Lise Jaillant — from modernist bookshops to born-digital government archives, and everything she learned along the way.

A really interesting read with many important points, the most critical of which is how to change a profession entrenched in traditions that are at odds with users' needs.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein. The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude” www.science.org/content/arti...

The academic and publishing landscapes have changed a lot since we started this magazine. We've stuck to the same principles we started with:

History is for everyone.

Every way of doing history is worthwhile.

Historians should be paid for their work.

We did all pitch in to cover the missed pay period and then the families that were hoping to keep the school running paid the teachers week to week through December. But yeah, you said it — not my Jewish values for sure.

Lindsey Graham: "The whole idea is for it to not be imminent, dumbass. You want it prevent it from being imminent."

Understatement of the day, this is really bad. Trying to bring about the end times makes casualties across the board range from necessary to desirable.

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(But happy birthday!)

Every year I hope Ivanka will take the right lesson away from Megillat Esther and this year I’m just thinking, no chance *and* Jared’s going to leave shul affirmed in the absolute rightness of killing Persians…

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A LATE-BREAKING TT JOB.....

Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Toronto

Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central Türkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE),

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The San Francisco Ballet Cancels Its Trump-Kennedy Center Shows | KQED Initially scheduled to perform at the newly renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, the SF Ballet has reversed course.

The San Francisco Ballet has decided to avoid being hence known as the company that danced for the orange dictator at his jankily renamed tribute palace. We applaud their rational decision. www.kqed.org/arts/1398724...

Please don’t lose sight of what is still happening in Minnesota and the way that the administration is killing and terrorizing people at home while they also escalate abroad.

That's not really how this works, but I guess I'm glad my cupboards are packed with sardines, olive oil, and Cola Cao

As a teacher of English in international spaces, English language supremacy needs to end because it continues to be weaponized & robs people of their voices.
So much destructive AI usage in academia is a company preying on people's feeling that their English isn't good enough. It's so upsetting.

We cannot actually just… oh, never mind…

YouTube video by Robert Reich Food Stamp Fraud, Debunked

Trump is launching us into what could be another costly and deadly forever war.

Meanwhile, he and Republicans are making devastating cuts to food assistance programs that help millions of people.

Remember: It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Última hora del ataque de EE UU e Israel contra Irán, en directo | Trump anuncia que cortará todo el comercio con España por ser un aliado “terrible” Francia, Grecia y Reino Unido envían apoyo militar a Chipre tras el ataque de Irán a una base británica | La Media Luna Roja eleva a 787 los civiles muertos en Irán| Israel asegura haber bombardeado e...

“Trump anuncia que cortará todo el comercio con España por ser un aliado ‘terrible’”

🙄🙄🙄

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Sir Elton John's family photo by Catherine Opie hung in National Portrait Gallery The portrait shows Sir Elton with husband David Furnish and their teenage sons Zachary and Elijah.

Media: Incredible photo of Elton John and his family, to be hung in the National Gallery

Authors: desperately trying to find a high res version, to see if their book is on his shelves

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Fascists Lie Of course Trump was not really committed to peace

fascists lie. trump lied about no wars. maga assholes like carlson and greenwald are lying when they say they were fooled. they all lie about everything because they see truth as weakness and good faith as an attack vector. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fascists-lie

This is a really good book. #amreading #again

Overhead shot of snowy intersection with yellow cabs and dotted lines outlining where snow has created space that can be a future bike lane, public plaza and pedestrian refuge.

New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)"

All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix!

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You cannot simultaneously believe:

A. Israel is so powerful that it can force the US government to wage war in Iran against our will.
B. Joe Biden had sufficient US power to restrain Israel from committing genocide in Gaza, power which he chose not to exercise.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Yeah, this is about where I’m up to.

"Is it so hard to say you were wrong?" -- under questioning from Durbin, Kristi Noem refuses to retract her statements about Alex Pretti and Renee Good being domestic terrorists, but throws "agents at the scene" under the bus for the fact she said it in the first place

I have to double check the time difference and my teaching schedule but I’ll try to hop on the zoom.

Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? To understand the Trump administration’s military targets, take a closer look at the petrostate pattern.

On Iran, see the larger context.

Five of the seven countries that the Trump admin has militarily attacked since Jan. 2025 are significant oil producers, even though petrostates are rare.

It's not a coincidence. I explain why @goodauth.bsky.social

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